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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66682	The great evil of procrastination, or, The sinfulness and danger of defering repentance in several discourses / by Anthony Walker ...	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing W304; ESTC R39412	176,678	430

lose nothing by conferring it upon us Our Hearts would sink and fail within us and our Hands our Faith could not be strong if God were to lose by what we hope to gain if the receiving us to glory must be by the eclipsing of his own glory For he will never diminish that for the advancement of which all things were made by him and for the sake of which he doth all that he doth or ever will do that therefore his Mercy may be thus magnified safely he hath provided how his Justice may be satisfied fully and all his other Attributes retain their lustre and their brightness He hath therefore raised up for us a mighty salvation in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of all his Holy Prophets since the world began And to give us the clear knowledge of salvation by the remission of our sins through the tender mercies of our God the day spring from on high hath visited us He hath devised means to bring home his banished that they should not for ever be expelled from himself that we may be delivered from going down to the pit He hath found a ransom He hath laid help upon one that is mighty able to save to the utmost all those that come to God by him He spared not his own Son but gave him to be a ransom for us made him to be sin that is a sin offering for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him yea made him a curse for us bear that curse of the Law which we had deserved that we might be delivered from it God hath set forth his Son Jesus Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his blood And he is gone into Heaven to appear in the presence of God for us so that if any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous who is a propitiation for our sin and therefore If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin And he hath revealed him to us and publisht these glad tidings to us in his Gospel which takes its name its denomination hence because in it and by it is made known to us those glad tidings of great joy that the Son of God is become the Son of man is now Emanuel God with us to be a Saviour to us Fifthly He makes us the most free kind pathetick invitations to come to him to look unto him and be saved He bids us to a Feast of fat things which he hath slain and prepared and of choice Wine Wine upon the lees well refined You shall scarce any where amongst men tho the dearest to one another and most delighted in each others conversation meet with so passionate so restless an importunity as is exprest to bring in Guests to the Wedding Feast Matth. xxii and Luk. xiv First a previous invitation before hand then a liberal and sumptuous preparation which might allure any man to partake of it Then a sending forth servants to call them who were before bidden then a sending forth other servants to inform them what an extraordinary entertainment was provided and again to let them know the meat was on the Table and their Lord staid for them and would not sit down till they were come and then other servants are posted away some into the Streets and Lanes of the City to search the very Lanes and by Allies where none but persons of the meanest rank dwell or converse others into the Country into the Highways where may be met Passengers of all degrees and qualities and to the Hedges where the Beggers lye basking or the Robbers lye sculking to hide themselves or look and wait to catch their prey and not only tell them they may come if they please and shall be very welcome but invite them heartily press them earnestly to come along wich them immediately and if they be indifferent whether they come or no urge them and persuade them till you have made them willing and if they continue still unwilling even constrain and compel them to come in and if when all this is done some of them make such excuses that nothing will prevail with them find out others in their room and give not over till the House be full and the Table be furnished as plentifully with Guests as 't is nobly stored and even loaden with provisions Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no mony come ye buy and eat come and buy wine and milk without mony and without price Isa lv 1. Come unto me all ye that are weary and h●●vy laden and I will refresh you and you shall find rest Matth. xi 28. And the whole Bible is as it were concluded and shut up with that large and free and earnest invitation which is so proclaimed that the whole world is made to ring of it He that hears first as being nearest to the first sound having charge to tell it unto others and call to them that are remote and out of hearing of the first publishers of it The Spirit and the bride God from Heaven the Church on Earth say come And let him that heareth say come And let him that is a thirst come And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely Rev. xxii 17. And lest any should enlarge what God hath streitned or streiten what God hath enlarged and take off from the encouragement which this invitation gives so universally to all sinners to repent and turn and come in to God the words next following may seem to have a peculiar aspect on what is immediately before declared in this 17. verse now set down tho I would not confine them to that only verse 18. For I testifie to every one that heareth the words of the prophesie of this book if any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book that is if any man shall add to the conditions of this invitation which assures acceptance to them who thirst and so thirsting come to God by Faith and Repentance if I may inoffensively subjoyn such a gloss as if it were so free as even to exempt sinners from these terms as necessary for their peace and safety God will plague that man then vers 19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of life and out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this Book that is if any man shall deny any one to be capable of the benefit offered in this so large and free and universal an invitation who doth thirst after these waters of life and so thirsting shall come to them repenting and believing and willing and desirous to drink of them He himself shall have no part

how Superlatively Holy then must that place be of which this was but a figure What ever God Sanctifies by his presence must not be defiled by the approach or touch of any unclean thing When God appears to Moses in the Bush or Joshuah in the Vale both must put off their shooes from their feet because the ground was holy on which they stood Paradice could bear our first Parents no longer when they had sinned away their Innocence Nay the Angels fell from Heaven when they fell from the Holiness in which they were created And Possession which you call Eleven Points could not secure their stay And thinkest thou with an unsanctified heart which bears Satans Image to be admitted into that place from which that very Image cast them out 'T is said some Vessels are so delicate and pure that they will hold no Poyson but crush and break in pieces to be rid on 't Should one sinner get into Heaven with his unchanged his invenomed Nature Heaven would cleave under him as the Earth did under Korah Dathan and Abiram rather than not discharge it self of him Yea when he saw his own loathsomness in that pure place he would save and prevent their labour who would cast him out and partly for shame to be so unlike the rest and partly for the unagreeableness of the place to his expectations and desires he would leap down headlong rather than tarry there As Vzziah when the Leprosie arose in his Forehead the Priests thrust him out of the Temple yea he himself hasted to go out 2 Chron. xxvi 20. And the expression is remarkable concerning the Angels which kept not their first State they left their own Habitation Jud. verse 6. for though Michael and his Angels fought and cast them out Rev. xii 7 8 9. Yet they were soon weary of Heaven and of their Holy Habitation and ready enough to leave it of their own accord when they had made themselves so unlike to it And what ever they think who look upon Heaven as a reserve when they can stay no longer in this world to be chosen rather than the place of Torment and phansie it like a Tu●kish Paradice a place of ease and sloath to eat and drink and gratifie their sensualities from an absurd misunderstanding of some allusive and Figurative expressions yet if an unsanctified man with his heart full of his present Antipathies against the Holiness of that place should step in thither it would certainly be the most irksom and disagreeable place he ever came in and more like a Purgatory than a Paradice and never was he so uneasie as he would be there nor was ever creature so much out of its Element as such a man would be And how strange or surprizing soever this may seem its easie to convince you of its Truth by Principles of Reason For likeness is the cause of liking and Satisfaction ariseth from the sutableness of the Object to the Subject that receives it Many things have an intrinsick Excellency in themselves and are very desirable to those to whose capacities and dispositions they are suited which are not so at all to others Hony is very sweet to an Healthful Pallate but bitter to the Tongue which is dryed and scortched with a Feaver Meat and drink are very pleasant to an hungry Stomach but their sight or smell will make him Sick who is troubled with a nausea or loathing Musick and Songs greatly delight a chearful airy spirit but to him that is of an Heavy heart are like the taking away a Garment in cold weather Prov. xxv 20. And to him that 's tyr'd out for want of rest one hours Sleep would be more welcome than the best Melody of Voice or Instrument We are never well but when we are where we would be and we would never be out of our own Element The Worm in the Earth the Bird in the Air the Fish in the water not only live but each in his Place doth grow and sing and play But change their Element and presently they languish and dye Sin and this World are a sinners Element and put him into Heaven whilst he continues such and his Heart would dye within him as soon as he found where he was The Air of that purer Region that Holy Climate would be to him as Ireland is said to be to Spiders Toads and Vipers His Conversation must be in Heaven whilst he lives Phil. iii. 20. to whom Heaven would be Heaven indeed that is a place of Bliss and satisfaction when he dyes Secondly The Company And this makes an unsanctified person more unfit for Heaven and would render his being there yet more uneasie to him Can two walk together except they be agreed Amos iii. 3. And there is just such agreement betwixt a wicked unsanctified sinner and all the Company in Heaven as there is betwixt Light and Darkness Christ and Belial the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent You may find what Company there is in Heaven by that short yet full Muster-Rowl of that Heavenly Host Heb. xii 22 23 24. The sum of which is this that in the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem there are God the Judg of all Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant an innumerable company of Holy Angels the General Assembly and Church of the first born which are written in Heaven and the spirits of just men made perfect Now if amongst all these a more narrow search be made then was amongst all the creatures for an help for Adam The return must be made us then non est inventus There was not found for Adam a meet help Gen. ii 20. So amongst all these will not be found a meet Companion for an unsanctified sinner Not God for he hath been used to say to him Depart from me I desire not the knowledg of thy ways What is the Almighty that I should serve him Job xxi 20. And God will take him at his word they 'l never come together nor will he now be served or injoyed by him Not Christ for of him he said this man shall not reign over me Luke xix 14. What therefore should he do in his Kingdom Or how can he have Fellowship with him who trampled his blood under his Feet Not the Holy Spirit whom he always resisted grieved vexed fretted and did despight unto whilst he was striving with him to render him a meet Habitation for God Not the Holy Angels for he never caused their Joy in Heaven by his Repentance and they can not be glad to see him there Not the Spirits of just men made perfect for the beginnings of that perfection in the first lineaments of Christs Image on their hearts and lives and the initial participation of the Divine Nature made them the Objects of his scorn and hatred Whom tho his Brethren by Nature he loved just as Cain did Abel and for the same reason 1 John iii. 12. Or as Ishmael